~ CRETACEOUS id+ CHALK like or CHALKY|
^u sc> DENOTES THE THIRD GEOLOGICAL PERIOD
~ CRETE ISLAND ON A LINE BETWEEN EGYPT AND GREECE
A MAJOR SOURCE OF WESTERN MYTHOLOGY
WITH ROOTS IN PHOENICIAN LEGENDS
KNOSSOS or KNOSOS and GORTYS
PHENICIANS or PHOENICIANS INTRODUCED
THE WORSHIP OF ASTARTE AND MOLOCH
probably unrelated to
ukr MOLOKHO = MILK or ger MILCH
THE ISLAND BECAME HELLENIZED BY
ACHAEANS AND DORIANS BUT IT REMAINS AS A
SOURCE OF PHOENICIAN LEGENDS OF TALOS
ITANOS AND THE RIVER JORDANOS
sug> JORDAN sug> JORDANIA
THEIR LEGENDS COMMENCE WITH see> EUROPA
~ CRETIN id+ | A SEVERELY INTELLECTUALLY DEFFICIENT PERSON
id+ | VICTIM OF CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM
CAUSING CEREBRAL AND OTHER MALDEVELOPMENTS |
etym> complex the most accepted version points to
the French Alpine regions of Savoy
hx> adherents to Arianism were judged to be heretics
some escaped to Savoy where lack of iodine
became teratogenic and gave rise to chidlren
stunted of body and mind sug> THYROID
fr CHRETIEN = SIMPLE IN SPIRIT sug> TERATOGEN
CRESEM CREME or CREAM sug> IODINE
note alt etymology
gr KRETISMOS LYING from
KRETIZEIN TO SPEAK LIKE A CRETAN
implies LYING
note INSULTS BETWEEN GREEK ISLANDERS as per
CRETIN poiting to CRETE and
LESBIAN LESBOS
cont> see> CHRISTIAN